Activity networks: Used to
control projects in conjunction with PERT charts and Critical Path Analysis.
Benchmarking:
Comparing yourself with similar others.
Brainstorming:
Successive cycles of divergent and convergent thinking (p. 43).
Control
Diagrams:
Critical Path Analysis:
Diagramming:
Affinity diagrams (p. 45),
Cause and effect (p.
48),
Influence
diagrams (p. 42),
Systems maps (p. 41),
Sign graph diagrams (p. 50).
Web diagrams
Experience
Curves:
Failure Modes Effects
and Criticality Analysis (FMECA):
Gantt charts: A timeline
analysis of activities.
Hard Systems Approach (HSA): used
when a clear outcome can be defined
Hierarchical Objectives
Network: (pp. 59-61) Current set of objectives- mission, goals, objectives,
schedules and action plans
Network analysis: Used
in conjunction with critical path analysis
Pareto
Diagrams and Analysis:
Program Evaluation and
Revue Technique (PERT): Project management technique for controlling medium to
large projects.
Quality
Function Deployment:
Scientific Method: Careful data analysis against a
hypothesis.
Soft Systems Methodology (SSM):
used to unravel "messy" problems
